Essay about Great Gatsby

In book, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts how the American was corrupted through wealth. Fitzgerald provides many examples. The most common example shown was Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s idea that to achieve his American Dream must be to acquire wealth. In order to show this, Fitzgerald uses various literary elements. Two of those being imagery and foreshadowing, these played a critical role in describing the theme, and specific moods to show what was to come and as well as describe the story as a whole. These play a vital role in representing Gatsby’s life and journey to acquiring Daisy, his version of the American Dream.

In the book “The Great Gatsby” there is many things that people say made Gatsby a great or a not so much of a great person. Gatsby was a great man because he became someone with almost everything anybody could and would want but grew up from with nothing, He made all this money from working jobs that were not so great and people envied him for it even though they did not know what he did, and he was just a very mysterious and many people found that very intriguing about him. person For people that didn’t know who he was when he was younger, they all expect him to be old money and get the money from his parents, but as we learn he made his money by working, good or bad jobs he still made money and he was successful and he was proud of it.

The Great Gatsby (2013) is a romantic drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann. The film’s screenplay is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) novel “The Great Gatsby.” It starts Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki and Isla Fisher. It follows the life of a multi-millionaire Jay Gatsby from the perspective of the narrator Nick Carraway who moves to New York out from the Midwest chasing his own American dream and end up living next door to Gatsby. The film is very alluring because it allows us to learn about the different aspects of the American Dream through an epic romantic drama between Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.

There is a saying that each person is actually three people: Who he is, who he thinks he is, and who others think he is. Who Jay Gatsby thinks he is, is what he has invented. Who others think he is, is wildly speculative. Yet the answer is elusive to who is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is the most shadowy figure in terms of reader knowledge. Yet he is the only character that at the end of the story turns out, ironically, the most truthful. Who Gatsby is, we find out, is shown in contrast to the other characters and their behavior.

The "Twenties" was an exciting time in American history, when being a "flapper" and rebelling against the common say of society was all the rage. As in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a popular yet mysterious "flapper," whose image is created through the life of Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald portrayed his life, problems, and triumphs, through his image of Jay Gatsby. The correlations between the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the life of his character Jay Gatsby, is that Gatsby and Fitzgerald were both brought up the same way, both used their popularity the same way, as well as signifying the life he wanted through Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays American society in the 1920’s after WWI has just ended, a decade of unprecedented economic prosperity. In the book, Fitzgerald critiques the loss of moral values and the degradation of American society, symbolizing it as a “valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where . . . ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke” (Fitzgerald 23). Through the characters of the book, Fitzgerald exposes the American dream from behind its dazzling veil of happiness and success, and characterizes its true form: a mad, desperate and hopeless chase towards something unattainable, turning a once innocent dream, into a shattered nightmare, destroying everything in its wake.

“Hey, stop! This is the house” Gareth said loudly. The car screeched over to the side of the road, gravel spitting into the air. He got out of the car with the portfolio in hand. He always hated this part of his job; seeing the family’s faces when he tells them the news. He slowly starts the walk up the steps to the second story of the crummy apartment building. Maybe taking the girl from this place will actually be a blessing.

The idea of social status pops up many times in the Great Gatsby and it compared

For someone to be truly great they need to make sacrifices to become successful. Anyone can be great at something, but to be great at everything is a much more difficult feat to accomplish. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a famous novel taking place in the flapper days. J. Gatsby, a main character, is in love with a wealthy girl named Daisy. No matter how great Gatsby becomes he is unable to fulfill his dream of being with Daisy. However, because Gatsby couldn’t be with Daisy, he made himself become as great as a person can become. Gatsby turned himself into a gentleman, took himself from dirt poor to one of the richest men at the time, and he did it all with his motivation.

When I was just a kid, I have read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Chinese. Since I was young and naive then, I did not get the meaning of the story, and I thought it was a nonsense. When I was older, I watched the movie version of The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo Dicaprio played the part of Gatsby. The movie astonished me at that time, and I was deeply impressed by the beautiful and sorrow scenes in the movie, which gave me an idea to read the book again in English. As I have planned, I read the English version of The Great Gatsby in my sophomore year, and I realized that this is probably the best novel that I have ever read, and it was even better than the movie; consequently, I fell in

She loses her life in a car accident and ends up hurting George and Tom.

It was late Wednesday afternoon, and I was coming home from my shift earlier than planned, due to the unpleasant weather. As I was walking under heavy rain, with a little umbrella that barely covered anything, I imagined the moment when I arrive home. Ideas of warm bath, drinking chamomile tea, while hiding under a blanket made me walk more briskly. Suddenly, I heard loud honks of a car pulling up to a small, humble house, that hid silently among the bushes. Obviously, I couldn't help stopping, as i was quite curious. I don’t know this area very well, and I took this path just as a shortcut to my house. Nevertheless, I've been told that the enormous mansion nearby belongs to the infamous Gatsby, but his neighbor was a mystery to me.

The Great Gatsby is truly a book that when you start to read it you cannot put the book down. In this book there are so many things going on that you do not know what to think at first. There are the mysterious Mr. Gatsby, and the there is the timid Nick. There are a lot more characters in this story than just that, but those are some of the most important people at least in my opinion. This book starts out with Nick moves to the city and then he's moves to west egg. What is west egg you might ask, well it is the part of the city that people live in. Most of the people that live on this side of the lake are wealthy but they didn't come across it by family or anything like this, they would call them people with new money. Most people did not like these people because they felt they did not earn their money honestly. Once you get a little further into the book a lot of drama starts to happen. The parties get bigger. The people become curious, there is also tragedy. Everything that you could imagine probably happening in this book. That is one of the many reasons that I love this book so much. Another thing that happens in this book is that Nick finally meets Gatsby after finally going to one of his parties this is a huge part of where the whole books starts to have the drama and excitement and we then start to actually know who Gatsby really is and

Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. Nick’s next-door neighbor in West Egg is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a gigantic ornate mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.

On the last page of the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author portrays his opinion of the American dream through Nick’s character and develops the theme of the American Dreams. The context of this passage is that it is the resolution of the novel. At this point in the novel, almost anything is back to the way it was except for the fact the Gatsby and Myrtle are dead. By this time, Nick had just finished organizing Gatsby’s funeral to which no one showed up to except Nick, the eye-owled man, Gatsby’s father, and the minister also came. The audience can see from Nick’s appraisal that he is disgusted with his wealthy lifestyle and is no longer happy. He ends his relationship with Jordan and when he encounters Tom, he pretends like he doesn't see him. He is reflecting his experiences in West Egg. The purpose of this novel is that it closes up the tragedy, sums up the lessons of the novel, and develops the themes of the Past and Future and the American Dream.